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Jupiter

intj · name · noun · 16 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˈd͡ʒupɪtɚ/
  • US: [ˈd͡ʒupɪɾɚ]
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  • CMU ARPABET: JH UW1 P AH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: JH UW1 P IH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Synonym of by Jupiter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: by Jupiter

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

The fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol ♃ in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Roman

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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4

name

Meaning 4

The largest or most prominent member of a group.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • Brazil could be considered the Jupiter of South America.
  • Jupiter became the nickname of John Pierpont Morgan in late 19th century finance.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, named after a mine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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6

name

Meaning 6

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Palm Beach County, Florida, named in error after the Roman god.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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7

name

Meaning 7

A number of places in the United States:

A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, named after the planet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

name

Meaning 8

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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9

name

Meaning 9

A summer resort on the Black Sea in Romania.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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10

name

Meaning 10

A unisex given name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Azure (blue), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Alternative spelling of jupiter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, especially, uncountable

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Tin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

Topics: alchemy, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, pseudoscience

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

A class of planets that are similar in mass to Jupiter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Jovian planet, gas giant, outer planet, superior planet

16

noun

Meaning 16

(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Jove

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Roman deity

Narrower terms: Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Fulminator, Lightning Hurler, Jupiter Tonans, Thunderer, Jupiter Pluvius, Rain-giver, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Best and Greatest, Jupiter Fidius, Protector of Boundaries

History

Etymology

From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph2tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

Decapitalization, from planet Jupiter. From being a planet like Jupiter.

Across languages

Translations

262 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: Иупитер (Iwpʼitʼer) — planet
  • Afrikaans: Jupiter — planet
  • Albanian: Jupiter — planet
  • Amharic: ጁፒተር (ǧupitär) — planet
  • Arabic: اَلْمُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī) — planet
  • Aragonese: Chupiter — planet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܠ (bēl) — planet
  • Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter) — planet
  • Armenian: Լուսնթագ (Lusntʻag) — planet
  • Assamese: বৃহস্পতি (brihospoti) — planet
  • Asturian: Xúpiter — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Yupiter — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Müştəri — planet
  • Bashkir: Юпитер (Yupiter) — planet
  • Basque: Jupiter — planet
  • Belarusian: Юпі́тэр (Jupíter) — planet
  • Bengali: বৃহস্পতি (brihośpoti) — planet
  • Central Bikol: Hupiter — planet
  • Breton: yaou — planet
  • Burmese: ကြာသပတေး (krasa.pa.te:) — planet
  • Buryat: пүрбэ (pürbe) — planet
  • Catalan: Júpiter — planet
  • Chechen: Юпитер — planet
  • Cherokee: ᏧᏈᏓ (tsuquida) — planet
  • Chinese Cantonese: 木星 — planet
  • Chinese: 木星 (Bo̍k-chhen or Bo̍k-chhin) — planet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 木星 (Mùxīng) — planet
  • Wu Chinese: 木星 (8moq-shin) — planet
  • Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus) — planet
  • Cornish: Jubyter — planet
  • Cornish: Yow — planet
  • Corsican: Ghjove — planet
  • Crimean Tatar: Müşteri — planet
  • Czech: Jupiter — planet
  • Danish: Jupiter — planet
  • Dutch: Jupiter — planet
  • Dzongkha: ཕུར་བུ (phur bu) — planet
  • Esperanto: Jupitero — planet
  • Estonian: Jupiter — planet
  • Faroese: Jupiter — planet
  • Fijian: Jupita — planet
  • Finnish: Jupiter — planet
  • Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr — planet
  • French: Jupiter — planet
  • Galician: Xúpiter — planet
  • Georgian: იუპიტერი (iuṗiṭeri) — planet
  • German: Jupiter — planet
  • Greek: Δίας (Días) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Νίκη (Níkē) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Φᾰέθων (Phăéthōn) — planet
  • Paraguayan Guarani: Húpiter — planet
  • Gujarati: ગુરુ (guru) — planet
  • Haitian Creole: Jipitè — planet
  • Hawaiian: Kaʻāwela — planet
  • Hebrew: צֶדֶק (tzédek) — planet
  • Hindi: बृहस्पति (bŕhaspati) — planet
  • Hindi: गुरु (guru) — planet
  • Hungarian: Jupiter — planet
  • Icelandic: Júpíter — planet
  • Indonesian: Jupiter — planet
  • Indonesian: Yupiter — planet
  • Indonesian: Musytari — planet
  • Irish: Iúpatar — planet
  • Italian: Giove — planet
  • Jamaican Creole: Juupita — planet
  • Japanese: 木星 (Mokusei) — planet
  • Japanese: ジュピター (Jupitā) — planet
  • Javanese: Yupiter — planet
  • Javanese: Wrehaspati — planet
  • Javanese: Respati — planet
  • Kalmyk: пүрвә (pürvä) — planet
  • Kannada: ಗುರು (guru) — planet
  • Kazakh: Шонай (Şonai) — planet
  • Kazakh: Юпитер (Üpiter) — planet
  • Kazakh: Есекқырған (Esekqyrğan) — planet
  • Khmer: ផ្កាយព្រហស្បតិ៍ (phkaay prɔhŏəhh) — planet
  • Khmer: ព្រហស្បតិ៍ (prɔɔhŏəh) — planet
  • Korean: 목성 (Mokseong) — planet
  • Central Kurdish: ھورمز (hurmiz) — planet
  • Central Kurdish: موشتەری (muşterî) — planet
  • Kyrgyz: Юпитер (Yupiter) — planet
  • Lao: ດາວພະຫັດ (dāo pha hat) — planet
  • Lao: ພະຫັດ (pha hat) — planet
  • Latin: Iuppiter — planet
  • Latvian: Jupiters — planet
  • Lingala: Jupité — planet
  • Lithuanian: Jupiteris — planet
  • Lithuanian: Indraja — planet
  • : ᦡᦱᧁᦺᦙᧉ (ḋaawmay2) — planet
  • Macedonian: Јупитер — planet
  • Malagasy: Jiopitera — planet
  • Malay: Musytari — planet
  • Malayalam: വ്യാഴം (vyāḻaṁ) — planet
  • Maltese: Ġove — planet
  • Manchu: ᠮᠣᠣ ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (moo usiha) — planet
  • Māori: Hineitīweka — planet
  • Māori: Pareārau — planet
  • Māori: Rangawhenua — planet
  • Māori: Kōpūnui — planet
  • Marathi: गुरू (gurū) — planet
  • Mingrelian: დია (dia) — planet
  • Mongolian: Бархасбадь (Barxasbadʹ) — planet
  • Nahuatl: Huēyitzitzimicītlalli — planet
  • Nahuatl: Mātlālcītlalli — planet
  • Nahuatl: Tezcatlipocacītlalli — planet
  • Navajo: Jíbitoo — planet
  • Nepali: बृहस्पति (br̥haspati) — planet
  • Occitan: Jupitèr — planet
  • Odia: ବୃହସ୍ପତି (bruhaspati) — planet
  • Ojibwe: zhaawan-anang — planet
  • Old Norse: meginstjarna — planet
  • Ossetian: Юпитер — planet
  • Pashto: مشتري (mashtari) — planet
  • Persian: برجیس (berjis) — planet
  • Persian: مشتری (moštari) — planet
  • Persian: هرمز (hormoz) — planet
  • Persian: زاوش (zâvoš) — planet
  • Phoenician: 𐤑𐤃𐤒 (ṣdq) — planet
  • Polish: Jowisz — planet
  • Portuguese: Júpiter — planet
  • Punjabi: ਬ੍ਰਹਿਸਪਤ (brhisapat) — planet
  • Punjabi: ਮੁਸ਼ਤਰੀ (muśtarī) — planet
  • Punjabi: برہسپت (brhspt) — planet
  • Punjabi: مشتری (mśtrī) — planet
  • Quechua: pirwa — planet
  • Romanian: Jupiter — planet
  • Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter) — planet
  • Sanskrit: गुरुग्रह (gurugraha) — planet
  • Sanskrit: बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati) — planet
  • Sanskrit: गुरु (guru) — planet
  • Santali: ᱨᱟᱡᱟ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ (raja ẽgel) — planet
  • Scottish Gaelic: am Bliogh — planet
  • Scottish Gaelic: Iupatar — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ју̀питер — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter — planet
  • Shona: Vhenekeratsvimborume — planet
  • Shona: Musvimborume — planet
  • Sicilian: Jovi — planet
  • Sindhi: مشتري (mśtre) — planet
  • Sinhalese: ගුරු (guru) — planet
  • Sinhalese: බෘහස්පතී (br̥haspatī) — planet
  • Slovak: Jupiter — planet
  • Slovene: Júpiter — planet
  • Somali: Cirjeex — planet
  • Lower Sorbian: Jupiter — planet
  • Upper Sorbian: Jupiter — planet
  • Sotho: Tosa — planet
  • Spanish: Júpiter — planet
  • Swahili: Mshtarii — planet
  • Swahili: Sumbula — planet
  • Swedish: Jupiter — planet
  • Tagalog: Hupiter — planet
  • Tajik: Муштарӣ (Muštari) — planet
  • Tamil: குரு (kuru) — planet
  • Tamil: வியாழன் (viyāḻaṉ) — planet
  • Telugu: గురుడు (guruḍu) — planet
  • Telugu: బృహస్పతి (br̥haspati) — planet
  • Thai: ดาวพฤหัสบดี (daaw-prʉ́-hàt-sà-bɔɔ-dii) — planet
  • Thai: พฤหัสบดี (prʉ́-hàt-sà-bɔɔ-dii) — planet
  • Tibetan: ཕུར་བུ། (phur bu) — planet
  • Tigrinya: ጁፒተር (ǧupitär) — planet
  • Tok Pisin: Jupita — planet
  • Tongan: Siupita — planet
  • Tswana: Jupitara — planet
  • Tumbuka: Themba — planet
  • Tumbuka: Chanya la Themba — planet
  • Turkish: Erendiz — planet
  • Turkish: Jüpiter — planet
  • Turkish: Müşteri — planet
  • Turkmen: Ýupiter — planet
  • Tuvan: Юпитер (Yupiter) — planet
  • Ukrainian: Юпі́тер (Jupíter) — planet
  • Umbrian: 𐌉𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater) — planet
  • Umbrian: Δὶς πατήρ — planet
  • Urdu: مشتری (muštarī) — planet
  • Urdu: برہسپت (brihaspati) — planet
  • Uyghur: يۇپىتېر (yupitër) — planet
  • Uyghur: مۇشتەرى (mushteri) — planet
  • Uyghur: ئەرەنتىر (erentir) — planet
  • Uyghur: ئوڭاي (o'ngay) — planet
  • Uyghur: قاراقۇش (qaraqush) — planet
  • Uzbek: Yupiter — planet
  • Venetan: Zove — planet
  • Vietnamese: sao Mộc — planet
  • Vietnamese: Sao Mộc — planet
  • Vietnamese: Mộc tinh — planet
  • Waray-Waray: Hupiter — planet
  • Welsh: Iau — planet
  • Wolof: Yupiter — planet
  • Yakut: Сэндэли (Sendeli) — planet
  • Yiddish: יופּיטער (yupiter) — planet
  • Yoruba: Júpítà — planet
  • Yoruba: Júpítérì — planet
  • Zhuang: Ndaundeiqfaex — planet
  • Zulu: uJupitheri — planet
  • Zulu: uMkhulukhulwana — planet
  • Afrikaans: Jupiter — god
  • Arabic: يُوبِيتَر (yubītar) — god
  • Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter) — god
  • Asturian: Xúpiter — god
  • Basque: Jupiter — god
  • Central Bikol: Hupiter — god
  • Catalan: Júpiter — god
  • Cherokee: ᏧᏈᏓ (tsuquida) — god
  • Chinese Mandarin: 朱庇特 (Zhūbìté) — god
  • Cornish: Jubyter — god
  • Cornish: Yow — god
  • Czech: Jupiter — god
  • Danish: Jupiter — god
  • Dutch: Jupiter — god
  • Estonian: Jupiter — god
  • Faroese: Jupiter — god
  • Finnish: Juppiter — god
  • Finnish: Jupiter — god
  • French: Jupiter — god
  • Galician: Xúpiter — god
  • Georgian: იუპიტერი (iuṗiṭeri) — god
  • German: Jupiter — god
  • Greek: Ζευς (Zefs) — god
  • Greek: Δίας (Días) — god
  • Hindi: जुपिटर (jupiṭar) — god
  • Hungarian: Jupiter — god
  • Icelandic: Júpíter — god
  • Indonesian: Yupiter — god
  • Irish: Iúpatar — god
  • Italian: Giove — god
  • Japanese: ジュピター (Jupitā) — god
  • Khmer: ព្រហស្បតិ៍ (prɔɔhŏəh) — god
  • Korean: 주피터 (Jupiteo) — god
  • Latin: Iuppiter — god
  • Latvian: Jupiters — god
  • Lithuanian: Jupiteris — god
  • Macedonian: Јупитер — god
  • Maltese: Ġovè — god
  • Māori: Hūpita — god
  • Marathi: जुपिटर (jupiṭar) — god
  • Occitan: Jupitèr — god
  • Persian: ژوپیتر (župiter) — god
  • Polish: Jowisz — god
  • Polish: Jupiter — god
  • Portuguese: Júpiter — god
  • Romanian: Jupiter — god
  • Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter) — god
  • Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ (dyauṣpitṛ) — god
  • Scottish Gaelic: Iupatar — god
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ју̀питер — god
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter — god
  • Slovak: Jupiter — god
  • Slovene: Júpiter — god
  • Spanish: Júpiter — god
  • Swahili: Jupita — god
  • Swedish: Jupiter — god
  • Tagalog: Hupiter — god
  • Thai: จูปิเตอร์ (juu-bpì-dtə̂ə) — god
  • Turkish: Jüpiter — god
  • Umbrian: Δὶς πατήρ — god
  • Urdu: مشتری (muštarī) — god
  • Urdu: برہسپت (brihaspati) — god
  • Vietnamese: thần Giu-bi-tê — god
  • Welsh: Iau — god
  • Yiddish: יופּיטער (yupiter) — god
  • Zulu: uJupitheri — god
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